Do you seek melancholy in music?

[UserFinn]

Melancoly is generally big part of finnish symphonic metal bands.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPonioDYnoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejnck_pnSWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7WrKfw6n0

[atsizat]

Originally Posted by Yippeekayay

atsizat, what are a few of your fave melancholy music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u99f9RAvwu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El_yn60tqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r35WQD6MCe0

[sirron]

Originally Posted by atsizat

I seek melancholy in music. I want music to make me feel depressed. I am a melancholic person.

Try listening to Vashti Bunyan on youtube.

[ClaraC]

Dearest Esmeralda, by Bill Danoff. (his other song was Afternoon Delight - something completely different!).

This song just slays me. There is something that happens in my brain when I listen to it.

Performed here by John Denver.

Melancholy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIjsyTB45K0

[Daisy Grey]

"Cry in your beer" music can be very cathartic--but don't dwell there....

In times of crisis I return to Jars of Clay first 3 albums:

VBFLdDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCclrQ1pOAo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAhpX_wIBk

Sometimes you need to laugh about the absurdity of it all--hence MGMT:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cye-1RP5jso

and BLEACHERS:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5osPtE7kXI

If you're into country this would be your ticket....

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